The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
Notes and Opinions.

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Fish BaU.-Rutland Telegram.
MILLIONS have been lost by the coal
handlers strike and not the ghost of a
farthing gained to any one.-1Tibune.
If Germany and France fight again
Belgium has the pleasant prospect of
being the battle-ground of the contest
IN the dispute about the lieutenant
governorship of Indiana the supreme
court has left the matter to be settled
by the general assembly.
IT is presumed that winding up the
affairs of the Mormon Church will take
almost as long as to wind up Water
bury tch.-Hartord Post.
|, UNLESS a great change comes over
the spirits of our people we shall not
have any carnival this summer, nor
next winter either.-Brlington hide
pendent.
THE West Virginia legislature has
adjourned sine die without electing a
United States senator to succeed Mr..
Camden. ID. b. Lucas has been ap-
pointed by the governor.
THE policy of Ohio republicans is
clearly that the friends of Sherman and
Blaine should go on comfortably to-
gether, without the noise and confusion
of personal contention. Cincinnati
Gazette.
IN five states thus far this season
constitutional prohibitory amendments
have been favorably voted upon by the
egislatures-the states are Michigan,
Tennessee, Oregon, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania.
SIR CHARLES dixie has an article
in the Fortnightly Reuie,0 strongly urg-
ing that England keep her army and
navy in best possible condition for war
He distrusts Russia and regards her a
powerful adversary of whom England
must beware.
MORE people persisted in Western
" billiards" during the winter now ap-
preaching its end than were lost in all
the railroad and steamboat accidents in
the country during the same months,
including the Republic and White
River disasters.
THE awful sufferings of the cattle in
Montana and elsewhere which are left
unsheltered and unfed to worry through
the winter if they can are beginning to
attract the attention of the men whose
philanthropic business it is to prevent
cruelty to animals.
THERE will be twenty-six hold-over
republican and twenty-five hold-over
democratic senators when the senate of
the fiftieth congress meets. That will
be bad for Judge Turpie or any other
senatorial claimant who is alleged to
have been elected by fraud of any kind.
THE Mormons have made up their
minds that there isn't going to be much
of shower after all. They say that
the new anti-polygamy bill cannot be
executed, and that they will take the
test oath and go along just the same as
ever. They evidently have no scruples
about committing perjury.
JUDGE Brown of the United States
circuit court in New York has rendered
a decision in the case of men under ar
rest for intimidating men during the
recent 'longshore strike. He refuses
their appeal and takes strong ground
that no combination or association has
right to do damage to the carrying on
of any business; and, further, that
such combinations or associations are
illegal.
Go where you will, in and about the
public places or rendezvous of the poll
ticians at the federal capital at this
epoch, and the admission or assertion
is heard on all sides, " Well, l suppose
we shall have Blaine as the republican
presidential nominee in 1885," The
expression of opinion that Mr.. Blaine
will not be the republican nominee in
1888 is rarely, if ever, ventured.-
Washington Letter IN Chicago Herald.
THE newest proposition in soldiers
home legislation is that of Mr. Hanback,,
who has introduced into the house a
bill setting apart 100000 to found a
home for the mothers, widows and
daughters of the volunteer Union SOL
diers and sailors of the late war. One
of the proposed conditions for residence
in this institution is that all inmates
shall be subject to the rules and arti-
cles of war, in the same manner as they
were in the army"
The Rural VermOnter expresses
"ghoulish glee " over the fact that the
railroad commission finds the cause of
the Hartford accident to have been
defective Central Vermont rail instead
of broken Pullman journal. The
VermOnter congratulates the palace car
company upon their triumphant vim
dication.o This remarkable interest in
the welfare of rich western corpora
ton and monopoly should cause the
patrons of the Il. Y. to look upon its
teachings with distrust. - Scranton
Courier.
A CLASS of agtators, who want to
get something for nothing, and in the
easiest way, have just held a conven-